1990s Shooter games

46 Shooter classics first released 1990 to 1999, in release order, and 133 games looking back to them.

Games looking back to them

• Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo: Vertical arcade shmup in 16-bit style.
• Alien Breed Obliteration: Fan remake of the Team17 top-down shooter.
• Chocolate Duke3D: Clean, faithful port of the Duke Nukem 3D source.
• DukeGDX: Java Duke Nukem 3D port distributed from the author's own site.
• EDuke32: The main Duke Nukem 3D source port.
• Ion Fury: New Build-engine shooter in the style of Duke Nukem 3D.
• Ion Fury: Aftershock: Expansion to Ion Fury, still on the Build engine.
• Phantom Fury: Sequel to Ion Fury's sister game Bombshell, a late-90s style shooter road trip.
• Pigface: Short gory retro shooter released September 2025.
• Postal: Brain Damaged: Postal spin-off made as a 90s-style boomer shooter.
• Rigel Engine: Modern reimplementation of Duke Nukem II.
• The AMC Squad: Large standalone episodic shooter powered by the Build engine.
• Turbo Overkill: Cyberpunk boomer shooter published by the revived Apogee.
• Viscerafest: Cartoonish 90s-style shooter left early access in April 2025.
• 8bit Killer: Free first-person shooter styled like an MSX-era game.
• Bad Pixels: 8-bit Wild West shooter on itch.io.
• ECWolf: Wolfenstein 3D port with ZDoom-style features.
• Gun Godz: Hip-hop themed Wolfenstein 3D-style shooter, first a free game, later on Steam.
• Project Warlock: Early-90s style shooter mixing guns and spells across five episodes.
• Quartermain and the Cult of Cthulhu: Retro FPS against Nazis and the old gods; a demo is also on itch.io.
• Rampancy: Sci-fi boomer shooter inspired by Marathon, Wolfenstein 3D and System Shock, on itch.io.
• Shanghai Gold: Boomer shooter set in 1930s Shanghai, on itch.io.
• Slaughter: First-person shooter running on the NES.
• Wolf4SDL: SDL port of Wolfenstein 3D that is the basis for many mods.
• Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony: Standalone GZDoom game in three chapters continuing the Wolfenstein 3D tradition; open source.
• Aliens TC (Doom WAD): Widely seen as the first Doom total conversion; inspired the game Trespasser.
• Beyond Citadel: Retro boomer shooter that came out in January 2025.
• Brine: Cornish-themed take on classic FPS games, on itch.io.
• Chocolate Doom: Source port that faithfully reproduces DOS Doom behavior.
• Chop Goblins: Short arcade-style retro FPS from the Dusk creator.
• Crispy Doom: Chocolate Doom fork with higher resolution and limit removal.
• Cryptis: Retro-style FPS released January 2024.
• dhewm3: Doom 3 GPL source port for modern systems.
• Doom 32X Resurrection (Doom ROM hack): Replaces the 32X Doom engine with a much faster one and restores the levels the 32X port was missing.
• Doom 64 for Dreamcast: Port of Doom 64 to the Sega Dreamcast.
• Doom 64: Complete Edition (Doom 64 ROM hack): Brings the new levels and options of the 2020 Doom 64 remaster back to the original Nintendo 64 cartridge, with an episode select.
• Doom 64: Retribution (GZDoom mod for Doom II): GZDoom recreation of every Doom 64 map for Doom II owners.
• Doom CD32X Fusion (Doom ROM hack): Builds on Doom 32X Resurrection for the Sega CD plus 32X: most of Doom II, levels from expansions, 100 maps and 96 FM music tracks.
• Doom Legacy: One of the oldest Doom source ports, still updated.
• DOOM Retro: Classic-feel Doom source port with its own website.
• Doom64EX: Reverse-engineered PC port of Doom 64.
• Doomsday Engine: Enhanced 3D source port for id Software's Doom-engine games.
• Dread Templar: Fast retro shooter with katana and slow-time mechanics.
• DRL (DoomRL): Free turn-based roguelike version of Doom distributed from ChaosForge's site.
• Dusk: Retro first-person shooter channeling 1990s shooters.
• EDGE-Classic: Revival of the EDGE Doom engine.
• Forgive Me Father: Lovecraftian boomer shooter drawn in comic-book style.
• Forgive Me Father 2: Sequel to Forgive Me Father.
• Freedoom: Free replacement game data that plays in any Doom source port.
• Fumes: Retro boomer shooter released July 2025.
• GBADoom: Full Doom port for the Game Boy Advance.
• Glitsa: Greek-themed boomer shooter on itch.io.
• Gruel: Retro boomer shooter released March 2025.
• GZDoom: Feature-rich OpenGL Doom engine that hosts countless mods.
• Harbinger: Retro FPS that showed up in Steam's top boomer shooter results.
• Hedon Bloodrite: GZDoom-based fantasy shooter grown from a Doom II mod, with Hexen-style hub levels.
• Herald of Havoc: Retro shooter released June 2023.
• Hyperviolent: Sci-fi retro shooter with sprite enemies released September 2025.
• Jupiter Hell: Full 3D commercial successor to DoomRL.
• Kauna: Finnish retro-style boomer shooter on itch.io.
• Killbug: Fast retro FPS released May 2023.
• Mullet Madjack: Hyper-fast retro shooter styled like 80s and 90s anime.
• Nightmare Reaper: Roguelite boomer shooter with procedurally assembled levels and retro sprites.
• Odamex: Online multiplayer Doom source port.
• Pig Iron: Retro shooter listed under itch.io's boomer-shooter tag.
• Prodeus: Kickstarted retro shooter with a Doom-like feel and map editor.
• Project Warlock II: Sequel to Project Warlock with larger levels.
• Selaco: Sci-fi shooter on the GZDoom engine, in early access since May 2024.
• Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer: Comedy 90s shooter presented as a teenager's homemade game from 1998.
• The Citadel: Retro FPS released August 2020.
• The Eternity Engine: Advanced Doom port descended from SMMU.
• Total Chaos: Survival horror shooter that began as a free Doom II total conversion and was rebuilt commercially.
• Ultrakill: Fast style-ranked retro FPS mixing Doom-era looks with character-action scoring; still in early access.
• UZDoom: Community continuation of GZDoom.
• Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2: Sequel to the licensed retro shooter Boltgun, made in 90s FPS style.
• Woof!: Boom-compatible Doom source port continuing MBF.
• Zortch: Low-fi retro FPS with chunky 90s visuals.
• Ex-Zodiac: Solo-made on-rails shooter recreating SNES Star Fox.
• Amid Evil: High-fantasy retro shooter in the Heretic and Hexen style.
• FTE QuakeWorld: Versatile Quake-family engine with many formats.
• Gauntlet of Thyrion: Modern Hexen II source port.
• Graven: Dark fantasy shooter pitched as a successor to Hexen, co-created by Hexen veterans.
• Hands of Necromancy: GZDoom-based dark fantasy shooter with Hexen-style hubs and transformations.
• Hands of Necromancy II: Sequel to Hands of Necromancy.
• Wizordum: Fantasy retro shooter with a level editor, in the Heretic and Hexen style.
• Wrath: Aeon of Ruin: Shooter built on the Quake engine (DarkPlaces).
• Aleph One: Open engine for Bungie's Marathon trilogy, which is now free to play with it.
• Citadel: Fan remake of System Shock in Unity.
• Core Decay: Retro immersive sim shooter in the System Shock and Deus Ex tradition.
• openDarkEngine: Open reimplementation of the Dark Engine.
• Prey (2017): Immersive sim on a space station following System Shock's design.
• Shockolate: Cross-platform port of System Shock's released source.
• Underworld Exporter: Unity-based reimplementation that runs Ultima Underworld from the original data.
• D2X-XL: Enhanced Descent port distributed from its own site.
• Overload: Kickstarted six-degrees-of-freedom shooter by Descent's creators.
• OpenJK: Community-maintained engine for the Jedi Knight games.
• OpenJKDF2: Reverse-engineered reimplementation of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.
• The Force Engine: Reimplementation of the Jedi engine, Dark Forces fully playable.
• XL Engine: Multi-game engine (DaggerXL, DarkXL) for 1990s 2.5D games.
• OpenTyrian: Port of Tyrian 2.1 to modern systems.
• OpenTyrian2000: OpenTyrian fork supporting Tyrian 2000.
• Abuse: SDL port of Crack dot Com's Abuse from the public-domain source.
• Abuse 2025: New modernized port of Abuse.
• Chocolate Quake: Accurate DOS-faithful Quake port in the Chocolate Doom spirit.
• DarkPlaces: Heavily enhanced Quake engine used by Xonotic.
• Desecrators: Retro shooter released February 2025.
• Diluvian Ultra: Retro shooter released September 2023.
• ezQuake: QuakeWorld client focused on competitive play.
• Hrot: Czech solo-made shooter in Quake style set in 1986 Czechoslovakia.
• OpenArena: Free standalone game on the Quake III engine with its own content.
• Q2PRO: Enhanced Quake II client and server.
• Quake3e: Optimized Quake III Arena engine.
• QuakeJS: Quake III compiled to run in the browser.
• QuakeSpasm: Conservative modern Quake port based on FitzQuake.
• QUOD: Retro shooter that fits in 64 KB, released on itch.io.
• vkQuake: Vulkan-based Quake port derived from QuakeSpasm.
• Blood West: Stealth immersive sim shooter set in a cursed Old West, with 90s-style sprites.
• Chocolate Blood: Faithful reconstruction of Blood's source.
• Cultic: Solo-made horror shooter in the vein of Blood.
• Fallen Aces: Comic-noir immersive sim brawler with 2.5D sprites, released in episodes.
• Transfusion: GPL remake of Blood on the DarkPlaces Quake engine; multiplayer only.
• Agent 64: Spies Never Die: Solo-made N64-style spy shooter released August 2026.
• GoldenEye: Source (Half-Life 2 mod): Source-engine multiplayer remake of GoldenEye 007.
• Shadow Warrior for Linux: Early port of the released Shadow Warrior source.
• Black Mesa: Source engine remake of Half-Life that began as a mod and was later sold with Valve's approval.
• Black Mesa: Blue Shift (Black Mesa mod): Mod for Black Mesa remaking Blue Shift chapter by chapter.
• FreeCS: Free reimplementation of Counter-Strike 1.5.
• FreeHL: Free reimplementation of Half-Life's game logic.
• Operation: Black Mesa: Source remake of the Opposing Force and Blue Shift expansions, including Guard Duty.
• Xash3D FWGS: GoldSrc-compatible engine that runs Half-Life on many platforms.
• Ground Branch: Tactical shooter by Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six veterans, in early access.
• Takedown: Red Sabre: Kickstarted tactical shooter pitched as a Rainbow Six successor.
• Midair: Kickstarted 2016 free-to-play shooter recreating Tribes' skiing; later shut down and followed by Midair 2.

The classics

• Raiden (1990)
• Alien Breed (1991)
• Duke Nukem (1991)
• Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
• Doom (1993)
• Star Fox (1993)
• Star Wars: Rebel Assault (1993)
• The Chaos Engine (1993)
• Aliens vs. Predator (1994)
• Heretic and Hexen (1994)
• Marathon (1994)
• Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994)
• Rise of the Triad (1994)
• System Shock (1994)
• Virtua Cop (1994)
• Crusader (1995)
• Descent (1995)
• DonPachi (1995)
• Panzer Dragoon (1995)
• Star Wars: Dark Forces and Jedi Knight (1995)
• Time Crisis (1995)
• Tyrian (1995)
• Abuse (1996)
• Quake (1996)
• Team Fortress (1996)
• The House of the Dead (1996)
• Touhou Project (1996)
• Blood (1997)
• GoldenEye 007 (1997)
• MDK (1997)
• Outlaws (1997)
• Postal (1997)
• Shadow Warrior (1997)
• Turok (1997)
• Delta Force (1998)
• Half-Life (1998)
• Radiant Silvergun (1998)
• Rainbow Six (1998)
• SiN (1998)
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998)
• Tribes (1998)
• Unreal (1998)
• Counter-Strike (1999)
• Hidden & Dangerous (1999)
• Medal of Honor (1999)
• Syphon Filter (1999)